A couple of limbers for the Russian artillery this week. These are Perry models, which come with a more complete set of tack than some of their earlier limbers. Once again I used Gale Force 9 3 stand rope. 50x150mm bases. The idea for these was actually to add some plumes and use them as limbers for the Guard Horse Artillery, which I may still do, as I like to have all my horse artillery at a minimum to have limbers, though stretching that to all artillery would be very expensive!
Russian Line Horse Artillery this week, from Perry and Commissar Miniatures. The two guns on the left are Commissar - I believe I bought them before Perry released their own Russian Horse Artillery, which are the four guns on the right. The Commissar figures are slightly smaller and have gloves, but otherwise roughly compatible.
Russian Horse Artillery wore the same horsehair crest helmets as the Russian Dragoons, switching to Shakos in 1814, which was after most Napoleonic actions involving Russians had concluded.
A dozen Russian artillery pieces, 8x6 pounders and 4x10 pounder unicorns. The Russians had a lot of artillery so the heavy, horse and guard artillery still to come in future posts! The unicorn was the Russian alternative to the howitzer, being something of a cross between a howitzer and a regular cannon, with longer muzzle, flatter trajectory and greater range. There was little practical difference in effect worth noting for the purpose of wargames rules by my reading though.
Russian line batteries had 12 pieces so at 1:1 scale this would be a single battery. In practice often only sections would be deployed, with other guns left in reserve.
